Lao People's Revolutionary Party

The Lao People's Revolutionary Party is a Laotian Marxist-Leninist communist party that was founded on 22 March 1955 as a branch of the Indochinese Communist Party. The party was the political wing of the Pathet Lao militant group during the Laotian Civil War of the 1960s and the 1970s, and the party seized power in May 1975. Laos became a socialist state under the LPRP, and the party became the strongest political party in the country. In 2016, the party held 128/132 National Assembly seats.